The 2020 Mini Cooper SE is One Fun EV | MotorWeek Road Test

The Mini Cooper has a well deserved reputation as being a fun yet fuel-efficient way of getting around. Well now it’s about to be fun and fuel-free as an all-electric Mini finally enters mass production. So let’s see if the Min-“E” is worth plugging into.

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[gregh]

I love my SE. It can smoke anybody off the line. I plug it in when I get home just like my phone. ICE cars that get <30 mpg are pathetic IMO.

[stevebritt]

Most of video seems to be stock footage from Mini. Specs quoted appear to be from Mini, not from actual testing. Disappointing since its performance is better than the conservative numbers quoted. For example, every reviewer who's actually timed it is getting 0-60 in from 6.1 to 6.4 sec.

[mattehelfrich]

Since when does BMW no longer sell the i3 here??!! C'mon @Motorweek you need to be better than that! 5:33

[jeffruebens]

There is a video about replacing the front grill plastic with the plastic from the gasoline S model. I would probably spray paint over the gray and yellow. The Mazda MX-30 should be available soon.

[dave_riots]

The range is disappointing, but everything else makes this car a winner.

[xadamdudex]

I wonder how much of the BMW i3 electric car is included in this car ?

[o]

What a waste. At least 200 miles of range would have made this Mini SE ev a winner.

[pigeonpoo]

So, Honda e, Mini e, or Fiat 500? All desirable, cute, a tad impractical and (probably) fun, but Fiat is cheaper with 200mile range, and women would be begging to be seen with me (I mean with it, but me by association)

[oldtwinsna]

Have to agree with the sentiments here that this car deserves all the criticism. This is dinosaur tech in terms of e-vehicles. Junk, nothing but pure junk

[Pendragon]

The torque specs in this video are pretty far off. It has 71 more ft lbs of torque than this video states. Although that doesn't even matter because it has less than half the range of most of its competitors for about the same price. You'd have to be a complete moron to buy this car until it's gets a battery twice this size for the same money.

[johnfranklin]

They won't sell many of these...110 mile range? BWAHAHA You can almost get that on an electric bicycle!

[VanekLarson]

Getting famous off of comments day 154, so I can live the dream, live life to the fullest🤙

[BenCabell]

Ridiculously short range coupled with BMW's notoriously poor build quality and this is what they call "premium"